10. The story of Jessica Cox, of Tucson, Ariz. She was born without arms, but that has only stopped her from doing one thing: using the word "can't." Her latest project is becoming the first pilot licensed to fly using only her feet. With one foot manning the controls and the other delicately guiding the steering column, Cox, 25, soared to achieve a Sport Pilot certificate. Her certificate qualifies her to fly a light-sport aircraft to altitudes of 10,000 feet. "She's a good pilot. She's rock solid," said Parrish Traweek, 42, the flying instructor at San Manuel's Ray Blair Airport.

8. Doctors called her a medical miracle. In May, Val Thomas suffered two heart attacks and had no brain waves for more than 17 hours. Rigor mortis started to set in, and she was placed on a respiratory machine. Her family said their goodbyes and Thomas’ tubes were removed, but she remained hooked on a ventilator as the possibility of organ donation was discussed. Surprisingly, Thomas woke up 10 minutes later and started talking. She was then transferred to the Cleveland Clinic so that specialists could check her out, but doctors said they could find nothing wrong with her. “I know God has something in store for me, another purpose,” Thomas said. “I don’t know what it is, but I’m sure he’ll tell me.”

4. In June, this story grabbed tons of attention with the headline: The New Club Drug: Preparation H? That’s right. The topical hemorrhoid medication reportedly is catching fire as the latest "drug" to hit the New York City club scene. The solution contains a medication called phenylephrine HCL, which shrinks the swollen tissues of hemorrhoids. It works by constricting the nearby blood vessels that surround the area. But the ingredient will shrink other tissue as well. At the time, a New York bouncer said men are slathering up their torsos with the hemorrhoid cream to make themselves look "ripped."

2. It’s not a tumor … it’s a worm. Doctors thought a Phoenix-area woman might have a brain tumor, but it turned out there was something else penetrating her brain – a worm. Rosemary Alvarez started experiencing numbness in her arm and blurred vision. She went to the emergency room twice and had a CT scan, but everything came up clear. It wasn’t until doctors took a closer look at an MRI that they discovered something very disturbing. Alvarez was wheeled into surgery where doctors were expecting to remove a tumor, but they uncovered the worm instead, which they removed. No one knows exactly where she picked up the worm – but doctors said worms can come from eating undercooked pork or can be spread by people who don’t wash their hands after using the bathroom.

1. All I wanted was a leg op. FOXNewshealth.com’s biggest health clicker of 2008 was about a German retiree who took a hospital to court after she went in for a leg operation and got a new anus instead. The woman had been mixed up with another patient suffering from incontinence. That patient was scheduled to have surgery on her sphincter. As a result, the clinic in Hochfranken, Bavaria, suspended the surgical team.